Originally published at The Catholic Thing
The virtue of hope, seen in the restoration of the great cathedral in Paris, compels Christians to renewal and to view the world with the optimism of a cathedral builder, one is entitled – at the risk of being called a killjoy – to deplore that this great moment in the Church history of recent decades was hijacked by the world of showbiz with an out-of-place concert and, even more, by the French government and its current President Emmanuel Macron, who in recent years have offended Catholics in multiple ways.
